Today’s recipe’ is less an actual recipe than the exploration of a concept. Jif peanut butter – along with Skippy, a ‘founding father’ of the product – is reaching out beyond the bread, promoting all kinds of applications for the iconic PB apart from sandwiches…Read More →
The are few more versatile Asian foods than the soup / dim sum dumplings available in profusion at all Asian grocery stores, and most larger supermarkets. We’ve done an easy dumpling bake. Now, let’s do a simple, sumptuous dumpling soup!Read More →
What a celebration of her life! Dolly Parton passed away peacefully early yesterday at the age of 80. And from there on, in it’s been ‘all Dolly, all the time’ on every media platform you can think of… Make her Chicken and Dumplings tonight!Read More →
The residents at a nursing home rebelled against their dining room menu. The Chef realized he had to do something to make them happier. So he turned the tables on them. He asked, “How do YOU make it? The result was a stunning revelation…Read More →
Two dishes that remain staples of my longstanding ‘standard’ Chinese Resto order are Egg Drop Soup and Hot & Sour Soup. It’s one or the other, every time. We gave you an Egg Drop recipe recently. Now we’re catching up with Hot and Sour!’Read More →
‘Value’ and ‘affordability’ are central to Fast Food marketing these days. Now, the princip-le of affordability is rating a higher-profile among grocery retailers, as more and more folks fall below the poverty line and malnut-rition cases skyrocket.Read More →
The shrinkage of candy bars over the decades of my youth and early adulthood marked my first exposure to what has come to be known as ‘shrinkflation’. Now, one historic candy bar has brought the phenomenon dramatically back to our attention…Read More →
We’ve already featured an Asian Soup Dump-ling Bake in this space. Now it’s time for an Asian Soup Dumpling Stir-fry! Many of the ingredients and procedures used in the Bake will crop up again here. But there are some essential differences, too…Read More →